CG1: knowledge of the different areas and sub-areas of English linguistics.
CG2: knowledge of research methodologies for English linguistics.
CG5: comprehension and integration of massive and complex information obtained from different sources (articles, the internet, specialised journals, etc.), within different theoretical perspectives of English linguistics.
CG6: capacity to carry out theoretical and /or empirical research, and to describe the results in articles,essays, or even PhD dissertations (in future).
CG7: capacity to present the results in public, in an academic environment (conferences, seminars and lectures, among others.
CG9: development of skills for teamwork: negotiating, transmitting messages efficiently, formulate and receive constructive criticism.
CG10: development of skills for autonomous work, such as efficient management of time and effort.
CG12: development of a reflexive and critical attitude on different types of English discourse.

CE1: in-depth knowledge of the different theoretical approaches and methodologies of linguistic analysis (such as: cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, computational and corpus linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis), applied to the English language.
CE6: capacity to apply the tools provided by the different linguistic theories to the in-depth analysis of spoken and written English texts.
CE9: development of skills for autonomous work and teamwork, oriented to research in English linguistics.
CE10: development of sensitivity towards cultural diversity in the classroom, and of attention to interdisciplinariness and transversality.

Presentation of new terms, concepts and other materials. Discussion.

Analysis of a series of samples of language in relation to the theoretical contents.

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This subject aims at the acquisition of a general perspective of the basic concepts of semantics and pragmatics, and at the students’ knowledge of a number theories and their application to authentic spoken and written discourse.

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At the end of the course, students should have: 1. Acquired a general knowledge of the main approaches to the study of Semantics and Pragmatics. 2. Acquired a general understanding of the basic concepts and main issues involved in the semantic and pragmatic analysis of sentences/utterances and text and talk. 3. Developed the ability to carry out semantic and pragmatic analyses of samples of sentences/utterances and text and talk in English. 4. Become more effective in your reading and developed you critical and analytic skills.

1. Introduction: Semantics and Pragmatics 1.1. Meaning, Thought and Reality. Denotation, Sense and Reference. 1.2. Expression meaning, Utterance meaning, Communicative meaning. 1.3. Descriptive, Social and Expressive meaning. 2. Lexical semantics and Sentence semantics 2.1. Meaning and Conceptual Content. Construal and other cognitive operations. 2.2. Categories and Prototypes. Category extension. Polysemy and homonymy. Semantic relations. 2.3. Conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Image schemas. 2.4. Situation types. Event Schemas and Sentence patterns. 3. Reference and Presupposition. 3.1. Referentiality. Identifiability. 3.2. Deixis. Deictic categories. 3.3. Semantic and pragmatic presupposition. 4. Speech Act Theory and Conversational Logic 4.1. Direct and Indirect Speech Acts. 4.2. Types of Implicature. 4.3. The Principle of Relevance. Explicatures and implicatures. 5. The Pragmatics of Interaction. 5.1. Context, Power and Distance. 5.2. Politeness and Face. 5.3. The pragmatics of cross-cultural interaction.

Students are required to make presentations and discuss readings, carry out analysis of examples, and write a term paper.

Blakemore, D. (1992) Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Brown, P. and S. Levinson (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davis, S. (ed.,1991) Pragmatics: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kreidler, C. (1998) Introducing English Semantics . London: Routledge.
Leech, G.N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.
Levinson, S.C. (1983) Pragmatics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Löbner, S. (2002) Understanding Semantics . London: Arnold .
Mey, J. (1993) Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
Saeed, J. (1997) Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1986) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Thomas, J. (1995) Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics. London: Longman.
Ungerer, F. and H. Schmid (1996) An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London: Longman.
Verschueren, J. (1999) Understanding Pragmatics. London: Edward Arnold.
Wierzbicka, A. (1991) Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.